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Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulker was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the shitory of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank

William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.